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Notts County now languishing in League two for shame. 

Juventus and Botafogo both copied their black and white shirts.

That's yer history lesson for today.

Sheffield FC (red and blacks)  v Hallam FC (blues) is the oldest derby as obviously they are also oldest clubs in the world 1857 & 1860 

Sheffield Wednesday (1867) and Sheffield United (1889) came much later because the original clubs wished to remain amateurs playing to the original rules they drew up and the industrialists needed a plaything for themselves and t'workers drawn up from the official unified F.A rules which came later. 

Sheffield Rules actually had more in common with the football we know today...touchlines, corners, free kicks, penalties, crossbars, referees, 11 a side, 90 mins and they also invented the first known tactics and formations.

The F.A rules (which were London based) were a bit more like a relative of rugby without hands and no passing forwards but they did have the offside rule - which was derived from this. What then formally became the F.A rules were a hybrid of the two but predominantly from the old Sheffield rules book.

Fascinating init?

 

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